Featuring the films of Oraib Toukan and a discussion with Joanne Nucho, Kristine Khouri, and Randa Jarrar
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Gallery open with light bites at 7:30 pm; screening at 8:00 pm. Seating first come first served.
"My own understandings of images were amplified in the aftermaths of several prior disproportionate onslaughts on Palestinians residing in the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip. Through the overall Palestinian historic experience of violence, I learned that visibility does not presuppose anything. The Palestinian struggle is painfully observableÂÂÂ, glaringly visible, and yet it always feels like it cannot be seen. Over time I conditioned myself to find meaning in the lexicon of the Arabic language on conscience and images. I dove into pictures to look—no longer for damning evidence of injustice, but for meaning in how we come to know things."
– Oraib Toukan,
Featuring a screening of two short films of Oraib Toukan, Via Dolorosa (2021) and Offing (2021), followed by a conversation with Joanne Nucho, Kristine Khouri, and Randa Jarrar, this program focuses on Palestinian cultural production and the tension that Toukan explores between the hypervisibility and invisibilizing of the Palestinian experience.
This event is free and open to the public. Presented in connection with the É«½ç°É Arts exhibition , and in partnership with the É«½ç°É chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace. Co-sponsored by É«½ç°É's Media Arts & Culture and Critical Theory & Social Justice departments.
Image credit: Oraib Toukan, Via Dolorosa, 2021. Image study in a single-channel video (color, sound). Courtesy the artist